Romance with Voluptuousness

Kamille Gentles-Peart is an associate professor of communication and media studies at Roger Williams University. She is the coeditor of Re-constructing Place and Space: Media, Culture, Discourse, and the Constitution of Caribbean Diasporas.

• Acknowledgments1. The “Thick Black Woman”: Racialized Body Politics and the Marginalization of Black Women2. Constructing Diasporic Identity: Black Caribbean Women’s Self-Representation and Cultural Citizenship3. Unrequited Romance: Black Caribbean Beauty Ideals and Discontent in the United States4. Transgressive Discourses: Negotiating the Thin Hegemony and Negative Physical Capital5. Embodying Diaspora: Centering Thick Bodies in Black Women’s Diasporic ExperiencesNotesReferencesIndex

“This book will be attractive to courses in sociology, women and gender studies, Caribbean studies, and migration studies, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. . . . The author’s conception of ‘embodied cultural citizenship’ and the way in which she demonstrates how this works are quite convincing.”-Winnifred Brown-Glaude, associate professor in the Department of African American Studies and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the College of New Jersey and author of Higglers in Kingston: Women’s Informal Work in Jamaica